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ER Editor: We normally find this sort of story to be like watching paint dry. However, the rejigging of the EU Parliamentary groups is starting to get interesting as we witness a large alliance forming under Orban’s new Patriots for Europe group, while others are being excluded, such as Giorgia Meloni’s party (she’s a globalist). We’re watching carefully for those exclusions since they could be very indicative of fake populists. What about the Polish PiS? That seems to be excluded, too. Change from within.
France24 gives a decent summary while at the same time showing typical MSM paranoia: Le Pen, Orban and the ‘Patriots for Europe’: Is the EU being undermined from within? Italy’s Northern League party under Matteo Salvini is also part of this new, Orban-led formation.
Some tweets on this story —
‼️ Historic moment ‼️
🇪🇺 ✍️ #PatriotsforEurope has been officially accredited as the new defining right-wing political group of the @Europarl_EN.
🤝 Our political group will start its journey with @J_Bardella as chairman and @FideszEP MEP Kinga Gál as the first vice-chairman.… pic.twitter.com/bdWF6yzdl6
— Zoltan Kovacs (@zoltanspox) July 8, 2024
🚨It is now official! 84 representatives from 12 countries: Patriots for Europe has just been accredited as the new #sovereigntist, #patriotic group in the @Europarl_EN. Congratulations to its first chairman @J_Bardella & vice-chairman Kinga Gál, @FideszEP’s MEP. pic.twitter.com/rV6ZPznLtg
— Balázs Orbán (@BalazsOrban_HU) July 8, 2024
HUGE NEWS
Jordan Bardella of the National Rally party in France has been made President of the new right-wing alliance Patriots for Europe.
14 parties have now joined and together they are the third largest group in the EU parliament.
Massive development.
— PeterSweden (@PeterSweden7) July 9, 2024
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And just to make things even more confusing, ANOTHER RIGHT-WING GROUP has been formed within the EU Parliament. Interestingly, this includes the Alternative fur Deutschland (AfD) party, as well as Eric Zemmour’s Reconquete (Reconquest) party. Zemmour, as we have noted before, was funded by the Rothschilds at arm’s length. He sank in the recent French elections. See —
New far-right group led by Germany’s AfD founded in European Parliament
A new far-right group, Europe of Sovereign Nations, has been founded in the European Parliament, its newly-elected leader said Wednesday.
The alliance, which counts 25 MEPs among its ranks, is led by Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) and Poland’s Confederation, and is also comprised of MEPs from Bulgaria’s Revival, France’s Reconquête, Slovakia’s Republic Movement, Hungary’s Our Home Movement, Lithuania’s People and Justice Union, and the Czech Republic’s Freedom and Direct Democracy.
That means two new far-right groups have been founded in the Parliament in the space of a few days. On Monday, Marine Le Pen’s National Rally and Viktor Orbán’s Fidesz joined forces to create the Patriots for Europe group, which largely replaced the Identity & Democracy group, which is now disbanded.
Europe of Sovereign Nations promises to be more radical than the Patriots. (ER: Define ‘radical’.)
Centrist and left-wing political groups are expected to impose a cordon sanitaire on both new groups, blocking their members from holding any influential positions in the next five years. The so-called Sovereignists will be the Parliament’s smallest grouping, with a very limited ability to influence legislation. However, one of the group leaders will be entitled to attend the powerful Conference of Presidents meetings, which set the Parliament’s agenda and handle its internal affairs.
The group’s chief whip is MEP Christine Anderson, a politician we’ve come to respect through the whole Covid debacle.
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RN joins Viktor Orban’s “Patriots for Europe” to “refuse the confiscation of our sovereignty”
FRANCE SOIR
In the aftermath of the disillusionment in the legislative elections and while waiting for “the delayed victory” in the words of Marine Le Pen, the National Rally (RN) is galloping back onto the European stage.
Walschaerts / AFPFaced with his failure to “occupy Brussels” during the last European elections and to counter the main Member States, particularly on the unfortunate issues of the war in Ukraine, immigration and ecology, Viktor Orban took advantage of the start of the rotating Hungarian presidency of the EU to announce the establishment of his parliamentary group. When the news was announced, he already had the support of Herbert Kickl, leader of the Austrian nationalist party (FPÖ), Andrej Babis, former Czech Prime Minister and founder of a centrist movement (ANO 2011) and Chega, a Portuguese far-right party.
RN and Orban join forces against the “confiscation of sovereignty”
“This new political force (…) will soon be the largest right-wing party in the European Parliament,” Orban said, insisting on his plan to “fight the Brussels elite” who did not “understand the wishes of the voters. (…) This alliance intends to fight against war, migration, inflation and the European Green Deal,” he explained.
For its part, the RN had struck a blow in France during the European elections. The party and its president, Jorban Bardella, had taken the lion’s share, or 31.47% of the votes cast. As soon as the results were announced, President Emmanuel Macron dissolved the National Assembly. While the National Rally came out on top in the first round on June 30, it fell to third place in the second round on Sunday, behind the New Popular Front and Ensemble.
This is not a big deal in Marine Le Pen’s eyes. “The tide is rising, it did not rise high enough this time, but it continues to rise. Our victory is only delayed,” she reacted. While waiting for this, the RN announced, on Sunday evening, its rallying to the new group of “Patriots for Europe”.
As a reminder, its MEPs were already sitting in the Identity and Democracy (ID) group, co-founded in 2019. The largest delegation in terms of number with around thirty elected representatives, the RN will legitimately lead this new parliamentary group. Jordan Bardella was elected president yesterday morning. This group, he claims, “will weigh in the balance of power in Europe, to refuse migratory submersion, punitive ecology and the confiscation of our sovereignty”. “From Monday, our MEPs will fully play their role in an important group”, he added.
This rally was in the air. In May, Marine Le Pen announced the break between the RN and its German ally, the AfD, and the ID group confirmed the exclusion of the German party in the process. The event foreshadowed a recomposition of the so-called conservative or nationalist forces in Brussels.
The 3rd parliamentary group faces the “sanitary cordon”
With this new composition, “Patriots for Europe” become the third largest parliamentary group in Brussels. The EPP, from which Ursula von der Leyen, current President of the European Commission (EC) and well on the way to being re-elected, comes, as well as the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats, maintaining control over the European Parliament with around 400 MEPs.
However, the “Patriots for Europe”, which the Spanish Vox have joined, who are slamming the door on the ECR group of Giorgia Meloni and the Polish PiS, are overtaking the Renew group, which includes the Macronist MEPs. The coalition of the Italian Prime Minister, who refused to join forces with the RN and the Hungarian Prime Minister for its positions deemed favorable to Russian President Vladimir Putin, is also the other group overtaken by Viktor Orban’s initiative.
Jordan Bardella’s vice-president, Hungarian Kinga Gal, an MEP since 2004 with the EPP, expressed the ambition of the “Patriots for Europe”. “We intend to have positions that correspond to the millions of voters we represent,” she said in Brussels on Monday, in the absence of the RN president.
Valérie Hayer, chairwoman of the Renew group, announced her intention to counter Orban and his allies. “Our line is extremely clear, we do not negotiate with the extreme right (…) Of course, we will use the cordon sanitaire again,” she said, referring to the strategy aimed at excluding elected members of the ID group from obtaining responsibilities within the institution. (ER: Once again, conveniently forgetting to mention the exclusion of the millions of people these groupings represent!)
With Hungary holding the EU presidency and the “Patriots of Europe” in Parliament, Viktor Orban, the RN and their new allies intend to weigh in and slow down the work of the 27, particularly on aid to Ukraine, immigration and ecology.
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Thanks for this! The educated city people everywhere have completely failed to understand anything very much related to the mass of ordinary people, including the plight of the Gilets Jaunes, what ‘Covid’ was really about or the vaccines, Ukraine, etc., etc. Universities are just places of indoctrination for the most part (I used to be part of one – they’re brainwashed in simplistic ways).
(I’ll be back later about your last message)
France : consciousness awakening amongst the priviledged ?
I paste here this article by a comfortable university teacher who suddenly felt too disturbing to keep pretending that the National Rally voters would be just crap.
I find it interesting to transmit to you.
Although he draws a correct picture of the status quo, he makes a wrong diagnosis : he believes he is guilty of monopolizing all wealth and privileges as a big city resident. He has no clue of the real reasons why the “France périphérique” is being sacrificed.
I do not want his guilt !
Such handicapped people are university teachers… Of course he is still far from wondering how he is going to get food to eat if the farmers are eradicated, although he was born himself in a village.
Side note : To me as a native Parisian from native parisian families who still remember the shelter provided to them by farmers during the war, this kind of long teeth people (including “artists” and the like, so-called intellectuals) who have been imported from the country to become “successful” in the capital are too many and dangerous at critical power positions. Their need to forget where they come from drives them to pose as more “Parisian” than the Parisians themselves and oblivious of even their Human origin. This ambitious species cause us old Parisians to be accused of ignoring and despising the rest of the French…
Yann Raison du Cleuziou : « Pourquoi je n’i signé aucune tribune contre le RN »
https://www.la-croix.com/a-vif/yann-raison-du-cleuziou-pourquoi-je-n-ai-signe-aucune-tribune-contre-le-rn-20240708
Tribune
Le sociologue Yann Raison du Cleuziou partage son malaise face aux prises de position intellectuelles contre le RN. Les électeurs du RN sont aussi les moins diplômés. Les accabler par le savoir n’est-il pas un abus de privilège ? Comment renouer le dialogue avec eux sans condescendance ? La vocation populaire de l’université est en jeu.
Yann Raison du Cleuziou,
le 08/07/2024
L’appel des 1 000 historiens contre le RN a été publié dans Le Monde, puis l’appel des 200 philosophes dans Libération. Merci à eux pour ces contributions vigoureuses au débat public. Pourtant quelque chose m’empêche de les rejoindre. Je n’ai signé aucune pétition, rallié aucune tribune, je n’en signerai pas. Un malaise m’a retenu. Le sentiment qu’ajouter mon nom à des centaines d’autres, lesté d’un titre de professeur dans l’université d’une riche métropole, ne ferait pas plus descendre le plateau d’une balance qui déjà touche terre. Qui déjà touchait terre avant tout cela. Qui déjà cumulait trop de poids.
Je n’ai pas voté non plus au second tour des législatives. Non que cela fut vain, ce n’est pas le problème, mais il n’y avait pas d’enjeu de conquête. Ma circonscription a élu son député Front populaire dès le premier tour. Il n’y a jamais eu de candidat RN au second tour et il n’y en aura probablement jamais dans cette circonscription. Comme il n’y aura jamais probablement d’électeur RN parmi mes illustres collègues, ou si peu.
Un sourd malaise
Et pourtant, à chaque fois que je regarde la carte des résultats électoraux, elle est si massivement brune… Aux européennes, la liste de Jordan Bardella arrive en tête dans 94 % des communes de France. Un autre monde. Mais c’est aussi mon monde et c’est pourquoi un sourd malaise m’accable. Au premier tour des législatives, 37,2% dans le village rural de mon enfance, 47,39 % dans la commune de mon école primaire, 30,16 % de mon lycée, 69,94 % où je passe mes vacances. Un monde peuplé de ruraux, d’ouvriers, d’employés, de chômeurs. Un monde décrit comme celui des peu diplômés. Le profil des électeurs du RN me renvoie à ma différence.
Un monde que j’ai quitté par les études, les choix résidentiels et pour le dire avec Bourdieu, l’accumulation du capital : économique, social, culturel. Un monde dont j’ai été exfiltré sans l’avoir recherché, quasi mécaniquement, par cette possibilité de choisir qu’offrent les études. J’ai quitté mon village de 700 habitants pour le département le plus riche de France : les Hauts-de Seine. J’habite dans la région qui bénéficie des plus hauts budgets culturels par habitant : l’Île-de-France. Je bénéficie d’un des plus denses réseaux de transport en commun au monde. La voiture n’est que l’accessoire de mes vacances. De partout, les TGV peuvent me ramener chez moi.
Leur histoire n’est pas mon histoire
Cela fait déjà longtemps que leur histoire n’est pas mon histoire et ce n’est pas un titre de gloire. La série devient compromettante : confiné du bon côté pendant la pandémie de covid-19 ; loin des manifs des gilets jaunes, moi qui vis dans la ville du « quart d’heure », le métro dans ma rue. Me confiner une fois de plus dans la bonne pétition ? Proclamer avec ma corporation que nous avons raison, que nous exerçons mieux la raison ? Refermer les portes de l’université derrière moi ?
Je ne peux m’abstraire du sentiment que notre unanimité n’indique pas la solution du problème, mais fait partie du problème. Et qu’il y a de l’arrogance à dire quel doit être le sens de l’histoire quand on est du bon côté de cette histoire. Je suis gêné de tant de concentration de titres universitaires quand, dans le même moment, il n’y a plus ni médecin, ni instit, ni notable, ni curé dans tant de communes, sauf pendant la pause estivale. Ça n’a rien à voir me direz-vous, j’aimerais partager cette certitude mais je n’y parviens pas. Je crois à la vocation populaire de l’université, le profil de l’électorat RN me donne un sentiment d’échec.
Une liberté volée
Je crains que cette liberté même dont je jouis n’ait été volée à d’autres. Que si bien des Français veulent renverser la table, c’est parce qu’ils ne pouvaient pas s’y asseoir. Qu’ils étaient assignés à écouter notre conversation sans pouvoir la rejoindre. Parce que le bénéfice de la tolérance que l’on craint de voir disparaître leur était déjà refusé. Qu’ils n’avaient pas le droit de dire que leur monde changeait d’une manière qu’ils estiment indésirable. Que nous n’osions dire que leurs opinions sur le rythme du changement social et ses priorités pouvaient être respectables. Nous craignons la fin du pluralisme mais l’avons-nous suffisamment fait vivre ?
Je crains que s’arroger la défense de l’héritage de « 1789 » ne soit un abus de privilège. Que l’on a sans doute trop présenté des micro-conquêtes sociétales comme des révolutions au moment même où l’Etat se retirait de territoires entiers, fermant écoles, tribunaux et maternités. Qu’il n’était pas nécessaire de jeter systématiquement le soupçon sur l’idée de nation, sauf à prendre le risque que son usage devienne exclusif à ceux qui en font une ressource d’exclusion.
Le képi du Maréchal
Je crains qu’en jetant sans cesse le képi du maréchal Pétain à la figure des Français qui votent mal, nous manquions de courage. Celui de reconnaître ceux que nous avons quittés comme des concitoyens. Non les miliciens d’un passé qui ne passe pas mais nos contemporains abîmés par le coût social, environnemental, économique, toujours plus exorbitant de notre confort.
Nous avons trop souvent revendiqué savoir qu’ils croyaient, pris avec des pincettes d’anatomiste leurs « infox », « fantasmes » et « peurs ». Mon pressentiment est qu’il faut s’attaquer à des révisions radicales et accepter que nous croyons savoir. Qu’il faut admettre que lorsque l’idée de progrès s’effondre, la recherche d’émancipation prend des nouvelles voies qui ont peut-être plus à voir avec le conservatisme qu’avec le progressisme. Notre éloignement social est trop fort pour que nous puissions encore prétendre décider seuls des bonnes questions et des bonnes réponses.
Je n’ai aucune prétention à représenter quoi que ce soit ou à être représentatif de quiconque. Juste le besoin de partager mes interrogations d’enseignant-chercheur attaché au service public, mon sentiment que les trajectoires géographiques et les ascensions sociales ne devraient pas nous condamner à une telle étrangeté sociale et qu’il nous faut reconquérir un ancrage parmi ceux que nous ne reconnaissons plus. Si nous ne parvenons pas à retrouver les conditions d’existence qui renouent la conversation et le destin commun, c’est l’idée même d’université qui se trouvera évidée. La surabondance des pétitions signées n’effacera pas cet échec.